Any of you collect vintage food?

[Brian Austin]

Here's a genuine antique unopened tin of SPAM.

Ebay listing

 

You could wash it down with this unopened bottle of Gatorade.

Ebay listing

 

There appears to be a thriving market for "unused food".

https://picclick.com/Popular/vintage-unopened-food

 

I found an unopened package of JELLO pudding mix in my kitchen cabinet apparently dating from the 1980s.  The box has a crease in it, so it's probably not worth much.  ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

I have some MREs from the late '60s or early '70s. 

Make offer.

No lowballers. I know what I got !!!!!!!!

https://mremountain.com/collections/vintage-mres-and-rations?view=boost-pfs-original

[Russell C]

For model cars, the question is whether you build a vintage kit, and wreck its unopened box collector value, or leave it unopened.

For vintage food, I can personally attest regarding a somewhat vintage but otherwise mint condition box of Kraft macaroni & cheese, it was not a terrible idea to go ahead and cook it up and eat it … it just wasn't that great of an idea, either.

[slusher]

wasn’t some Champagne brought up from the Titanic?

[stitchdup]

6 hours ago, Brian Austin said:

There appears to be a thriving market for "unused food"..  ?

theres a big market for used food too,but we mostly call that pol-ee-tiks

[atomicholiday]

I ate some outdated pudding one time and got sick.   Does that count?

[bobss396]

I recently opened a brownie mix that expired in 2014... what the heck... I cooked it up and it was fine.

A few years ago I ran across a box of Velveeta cheese/shells family dinner. It was 5 years expired. The cheese packet was intact, so I went for it. I'm still alive and it tasted great.

Canned stuff like Spam... I'd be leery of having it around in case the can finally decided to bust a seam.

[Mike 1017]

I saw someone on You Tube selling special addition candy bars

[Horrorshow]

There was a TV show where two guys would eat the vintage food. Only thing I can recall at the moment is a bag of Fritos from the seventies that they said were awful.

[Horrorshow]

2 minutes ago, Horrorshow said:

There was a TV show where two guys would eat the vintage food. Only thing I can recall at the moment is a bag of Fritos from the seventies that they said were awful.

Just looked it up, was called Eating History, from 2020, 10 episodes.

[Mark]

There are a couple of YouTube channels where they open "unused" food, wisely not attempting to eat it.  From the looks of some of those items, I'm glad we don't have "smell-o-vision"...

[JollySipper]

Kinda reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine eats Mr. Peterman's piece of vintage cake............

[jaymcminn]

Just what winds up under the sofa...

[Muncie]

for really old food archives, check out a chest type freezer.  Had to deal with a couple of those.  Top layer was fairly recent, but the bottom layer was 25 to 30 years old... found some packages with my birth year on them.

- or the jars of home canned fruit at the back of the shelf in the garage...

[webestang]

WOW!!! I've sold a few things on the Bay that I thought no one would want but....just WOW!!! 

[Brian Austin]

On display at the Wayside Country Store in Massachusetts, they have some genuine antique candy, over a century at this point.  Does it look appetizing?  (Seen here in 2013).

[1972coronet]

One of my favourite vids of "vintage" "food" 

Enjoying A 20 Year Old CRYSTAL PEPSI (WARNING:VOMIT ALERT)

[Brutalform]

15 hours ago, bobss396 said:

I recently opened a brownie mix that expired in 2014... what the heck... I cooked it up and it was fine.

A few years ago I ran across a box of Velveeta cheese/shells family dinner. It was 5 years expired. The cheese packet was intact, so I went for it. I'm still alive and it tasted great.

Canned stuff like Spam... I'd be leery of having it around in case the can finally decided to bust a seam.

IMO, Most, but not all food and products have date codes, because the manufacturers know that certain people will think they might become poisoned if they consume it. Hoping that you toss perfectly good food, and go buy more. 

[bobss396]

7 hours ago, Brutalform said:

IMO, Most, but not all food and products have date codes, because the manufacturers know that certain people will think they might become poisoned if they consume it. Hoping that you toss perfectly good food, and go buy more. 

I do toss anything suspect. Especially things in jars. I ran across a ketchup bottle from 2011... it looked more like dried blood. Also a can of old condensed milk that appeared to.have turned solid. 

[slusher]

We thr out some old tuna can’t trust that..

[TonyK]

For some reason we were told to save the top layer of our wedding cake in the freezer and dig it out for our first anniversary. Looking forward to eating it and after one bite it sucked. Afterwards we kept saying how stupid that was as anything kept in the freezer for a year is not gonna be good.

[LennyB]

19 minutes ago, TonyK said:

For some reason we were told to save the top layer of our wedding cake in the freezer and dig it out for our first anniversary. Looking forward to eating it and after one bite it sucked. Afterwards we kept saying how stupid that was as anything kept in the freezer for a year is not gonna be good.

I was told the same thing for my first marriage, marriage didn’t make it long enough to eat the cake.   

[NOBLNG]

12 hours ago, Brian Austin said:

On display at the Wayside Country Store in Massachusetts, they have some genuine antique candy, over a century at this point.  Does it look appetizing?  (Seen here in 2013).

Those look like they’re petrified.?

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, NOBLNG said:

Those look like they’re petrified.?

Natural place for well-dessicated mice or rats in there too...and spiderwebs.  

[RSchnell]

Surprised this guy hasn't been mentioned yet. He's eaten everything from Civil War Hardtack to numerous ancient rations. Not ashamed to say it's one of the few youtube channels I follow LOL

Steve1989MREInfo

 

Edited November 6, 2024 by RSchnell